On Feb 5, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote:
On Thursday 05 February 2009 04:01:47 Niklas Huldén wrote:
Joachim K. Rennstich wrote:
Thanks, Ian, for the fast reply
Configuration files should handled with a text editor. I don't know
what that would be for your system but something like Vim, Gedit,
Kate
etc. You will probably need to edit this file as root.
I am using Lyx 1.6.1 on Mac OS X 10.5.6. Unfortunately, I don't
really
know how to locate (and thus edit) the file in question. Sorry, I
am one
of those GUI folks who have no clue about the underlying structure
of
the Mac OS...
In your program folder you have a program called "Textedit". Use that
program to open the file "/usr/local/etc/aspell.conf".
And as your earlier post said:
Remove the line "home-dir $HOME/Library/Preferences/aspell" (line 38
including blanks), or disable it by adding a "#" sign at the
begining.
Save the file, exit Textedit and start LyX again.
I am no longer on a Mac, but up to a couple of years ago, the system
would not show the /usr directory in a GUI application. So the file
open dialog of a regular GUI text editor would not even show you the
file.
Only (in Apple's often infuriatingly paternalistic way) by default.
From (IIRC) the very first version of OS X, if you hit Cmd-Shift-G in
either the Finder or a File/Open dialog box, you will be given a small
input box in which you can enter "hidden" directory and file names.
Typing "/usr", in particular, will show you that directory in the
Finder or dialog box.
Besides, if you need root privileges to write on it, you'd
definitely need to go through the command line (i.e. the Terminal
app).
True. (Gnome and KDE, which bring up an input box that let's you
authenticate as root when you try to edit a file with root
permissions, are much smarter about this.) But in any case, using vi
or some other fast terminal-based editor from the command line is
generally much faster for this sort of quick 'n' dirty file editing.
-chris
